Alphabet Soup (Noun)
Meaning 1
A confusing assortment; "Roosevelt created an alphabet soup of federal agencies".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The new policy is just an alphabet soup of bureaucratic acronyms that nobody can understand.
- The company's organizational structure is an alphabet soup of departments and subsidiaries.
- The tax code is an alphabet soup of exemptions and deductions that only accountants can decipher.
- The professor's lecture was an alphabet soup of technical terms and jargon that left the students bewildered.
- The government's response to the crisis was an alphabet soup of committees and task forces that seemed to accomplish little.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.